Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

I recently got an 8-quart Instant Pot , and if you have one too, you'll know the "pot" part where all the food goes is really quiet deep. And the food inside can of course be piping hot. I didn't want any metal utensils in case it ends up scraping and marking up the pot over time, but I also didn't want to use just any rubber spatula. But I did want a spatula-like thing to scrape down the sides, such as when I made rice. So I was really pleased to find this really long-handled spatula-like scraper at my local Dollarama . The scraping head is quite thick and sturdy, so it doesn't have the same flexibility as a rubber spatula, but it works well enough to reach all the way to the bottom easily.

I bought a second-hand Alienware laptop off Facebook Marketplace. It looked in near-new condition and the seller reset the laptop and along with it, the Windows 10 installation. But when I got it home, the Windows 10 automatic update got stuck several times, eventually stuck on “Your Device is Missing Important Security and Quality Fixes” and error 0x800f984 with retries failing. I searched for a solution and found this page  . I tried the initial solutions including trying to fix corrupted files, but after hours, it seemed the best and most straightforward solution was to just bypass the automated installer and go straight to Microsoft to download Windows 10 updates . It did take a while to download (on my slow internet connection) but I didn't need to use the command line to try speculative fixes, or any even more complicated solutions that might result in a worse situation if done incorrectly. Afterwards, it had a few more updates but they went through fine. That page also has a...